Reptiles

Skink

A furry footed garden skink – it has been running about behind the wood-heater, collecting fluff. I carried it outside and managed one decent photo with the old Nokia Lumia 520 phone.

If you are viewing on PC or tablet, and wish to see the entire photo, just click on image and select view background.  I didn’t get it all in. Should have worn my specs.

Thanks for looking.

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Bees & Bugs

Bees & Apple Blossom

The apple blossoms have been short-lived this season for we have had wind and rain and the odd bit of hail amid the sunny days. My obsession with photographing bees is waning a little. I keep thinking my time can be better spent doing other things. You must be sick of bee pictures, by now!

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Nikon D3000, on auto. A few weeks ago. The Nikon is still not working, and I’m hoping it is a stuck shutter button and not its little motor. I found a tutorial on freeing the button. In the meantime I will have some fun with the phone camera.

Do have a great day. 🙂

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Taniel

I’m nearly published.

A pre-order eBook is not exactly published, but it is pretty close. I pressed the button yesterday and it went live before I went to bed. The feeling I have is indescribable.

Taniel: A Corrangorach Fantasy (Book I – The Taverner’s Daughter)  will be released on January 20, 2017 – my mum’s birthday.

I have plenty of time to give it a decent revision. To that end, I have signed up to Holly Lisle’s revision course and I will begin the process this week. I rue all the years I’ve wasted fiddling with moving sentences around and editing instead of a proper revision. Giving myself time to check formatting, I’ll have to have the final file uploaded the first week of January.

My blurb… (pending the recent update to the live version, and I changed the cover to the one shown here)

Taniel: A Corrangorach Fantasy (Book I – The Taverner’s Daughter) 

Mistaking a leather-clad wizard for a dragonrider, the taverner’s daughter agrees to binding vows after he reveals her ability to dragonspeech: Jarryd hopes for a magic-saving paternity spell and Taniel just wants his dragon.

Of course, it is not that simple. It never is.

Jarryd’s family has their own plans for Taniel and they do not want his interference. Taniel’s father is little help, having problems of his own, surrounded and all by good grog and a guilty conscious for hiding a magical heritage – and other secrets.

Add talking dragons, a gallivanting Grandmaster Wizard, kidnappings, a wicked stepfather, seductive shape shifting winged wizards, a witch or two, plotting land-locked pirates, spies, rumour of  rockgoblins, a failing magical barrier, and stir well.

What you get is a Corrangorach Fantasy.

I chose my two categories as Fantasy: Epic & Romance:Fantasy. I’m not so sure about the epic bit.

I’m excited, as you can imagine.

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Thanks for looking and thanks for being part of my journey to this point.   🙂

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